are you in the group plugdev ??



On 6/29/08, Ricardo Bevilacqua <rus.spes@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 2008/6/28 Norman Hakim <desprado_mariachi@yahoo.com>:
>
> > Eduardo,
> >
> > I have checked the content of fstab and this is the result:
> >
> > /dev/hda1          /boot    ext2    defaults         1  2
> > /dev/hda2          none             swap      s  w         0  0
> > /dev/hda3          /        ext3    noatime          0  1
> > none             /proc     proc    defaults   0  0
> > none             /dev/shm  tmpfs   defaults   0  0
> >
> > Honestly, at first when i installed gentoo,i just installed it by using
> the handbook and i thought it will be no problem. Actually this is my first
> time using Linux and i never have any experience using it before.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Norman
>
>
> Norman,
>
> I am glad to know that you have chosen Gentoo as your first contact
> with GNU/Linux. First of all, congratulations! having a working Gentoo
> system without any previous Linux knowledge is a terrific start!
>
> I assumed that you knew what fstab is and how to modify that file
> because it is explained in the Gentoo Handbook, which is the reference
> to install this distribution.
>
> As explained in the Gentoo Handbook chapter 8 [1], you manually
> created a text file under "/etc" called "fstab". This simple text file
> contains all the necessary information to, let's say "auto-mount" your
> different devices.
>
> This is my fstab, I post it here as an example:
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> /dev/hdc1               /boot
> ext2            defaults,noatime                                1 2
> /dev/hdc3               /
> reiserfs        noatime                                 0 1
> /dev/hdc2
> none                    swap            sw                                              0
> 0
> /dev/cdrom      /mnt/cdrom      auto            noauto,ro,user                          0
> 0
> /dev/floppy/fd0 /mnt/floppy
> auto            noauto,rw,user                          0 0
> /dev/hda1
> /mnt/RIC                vfat            defaults,noatime,user
> 0 0
> /dev/hdb2               /mnt/ZERO
> vfat            defaults,noatime,user                   0 0
> /dev/sda1
> /mnt/USB                auto            noauto,rw,user
>
> # NOTE: The next line is critical for boot!
> proc                    /proc
> proc            defaults                                        0 0
>
> # glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for
> # POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink).
> # (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will
> #  use almost no memory if not populated with files)
> shm
> /dev/shm                tmpfs        nodev,nosuid,noexec                        0
> 0
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Usually, adding this
>
> "/dev/cdrom
> /mnt/cdrom      auto            noauto,ro,user                          0 0"
>
> should be enough to have your cd-rom/cd-rw/dvd working =).
>
> If that does not work, then let us know and see if we can figure out
> something else. If it does work, then great! go on  enjoying Gentoo
> Linux.
>
> You learn a lot using Gentoo. Is the only distribution that gave m the
> chance to learn a lot about Linux. It is very stable and flexible, you
> always have control over your own system, that is very important.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ricardo.
> (Richard)
>
>
> [1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=8
>
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